Posted on: November 6, 2019
Cascadejackal
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An Oddball FPS
Hedon is an odd game. The title presents you with a well-drawn splash screen and a great piece of music, leading you to expect something with the pace of Tower of Guns and the soundtrack and world aesthetic of SEUM mixed with the writing of Quake. Then, you actually start the game. The first thing you'll notice is the graphics. Specifically, how everything is... would muddy be the right word? Indistinct, certainly. Very few things actually pop, or are visually distinct. The textures all muddle and blur together, with sparse lighting giving very little definition to the level geometry. What looks like a wall might actually be a pillar you can go behind, and that pillar might have raised parts you can jump on that are only visible from above. Walls and floors visually run together, objects like crates are only really discernible because they're a different color, and everything just generally lacks shading or definition. I can't say it any other way: The screenshots look flat because the game looks flat. It's a shame, because after playing through the first three levels, I found them to be surprisingly well-designed and intricate at times. The engine just isn't being used to its fullest compared to other games, like DooM, Heretic, Hexen or Strife. The next thing you notice is the character sprites. They look hand-drawn, which isn't bad by itself, but the animations are barely existant. Almost every character seems to only have about 5-7 frames. 2 for walking, 2-3 for attacking, and a death animation. This, combined with the muddy graphics, makes actually reading a situation very difficult. Enemies blur into the background even at middle distances, and have so little movement in their sprites that you can't readily pick them out. On to the good. Rather, the VERY good. The music is great, when it's not droning ambience. Energetic metal works great here. Combat is brutal and satisfying, with the axe one of the most satisfying FPS melee weapons I've ever seen.
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